The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - The Left Doesn't Care About Hate Speech

Episode Date: April 15, 2023

On this week's Bongino Brief, I tell you why the left doesn’t care about hate speech and why it’s important to not silence them.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. Nobody likes hate speech. Now, for a second, I'm just asking the conservatives and libertarians who comprise the large majority of my audience, don't look at it through your lens. You know that the hate speech label is a canard. You know it's all BS. Look at it from someone who's marginally interested in politics, who's maybe listening to this show for the first time. We all had a first time, folks, right? We tuned in. We heard Mark Levin on the radio. Heard Hannity back or whatever, Rush Limbaugh back in the day. And you're like, gosh, that's interesting. I'm going to become a conservative talk radio consumer, right? Then they hear hate speech. They think, yeah, yeah, no one wants hate speech. That's virulent. That's really awful stuff. The left doesn't care about

that. Do you notice they call us the most vile, disgusting of names, fascists, Nazis, racists, misogynists, conservatives at it. They clearly don't care about it. And disinformation, the left wants to get disinformation off their platform. It's the left that promoted a fake pee-pee tape, a collusion scam that didn't exist.

The Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation. They're the ones involved in the COVID nonsense. Masks will prevent COVID. They do nothing of the sort. The vaccine prevents transmission of COVID. They do nothing of the sort. The vaccine prevents transmission of COVID. It does nothing of the sort. They're the ones engaged in the hate speech

and the disinformation. This is just beautiful. This is a video of Elon Musk. So Elon Musk is interviewing with this BBC reporter who again has fallen into this cliche trap of you know that twitter's turned right wing and therefore is full of hate speech and disinformation you would think at his fingertips he would have examples of this supposed to be a journalist right you're making a big bold assertion that you found nasty hate speech on a platform just come come up with one example. It really shouldn't be that hard. And it was. Watch yourself. You know, just content that will solicit a reaction, something that may include something that is slightly racist or slightly sexist, those kinds of those kinds of things. So you think if something is slightly sexist,

it should be banned? No, I'm not saying anything. I'm just curious. I'm trying to understand what you mean by hateful content. I'm asking for specific examples. And you just said that if something is slightly sexist, that's hateful content. Does that mean that it should be banned? Well, you've asked me whether my feed, whether it's got less or more. I'd say it's got slightly more.

That's what I'm asking for examples, right? Can you name one example? I honestly don't need, honestly, I can't name a single example. I'll tell you why. Cause I don't actually use that for you feed anymore because I just don't particularly like it. A lot of people, a lot of people are quite similar. I only, I only look at my followers. You said you've seen more hateful content, but you can't name a single example, not even one. I'm not sure I've used that feed for the last three or four weeks. How did you see the hateful content? Because I've been using Twister since you've taken it over for the last six months.

Okay, so then you must have at some point seen for you hateful content. I'm asking for one example. Right. You can't give a single one. And I'm saying... Then I say so that you don't know what you're talking about. Really? Yes, because you can't give a single example of hateful content, not even one tweet.

Folks, you think you'd have one example, just one. If you're going to cite hate speech now, see, this isn't a problem for me as a Republican on the platform, a conservative on the platform of Twitter, because I hate speech is a nonsensical term. I'm not going to go on there. Oh, hate speech has hate speech. This is a, this is the left trying to define the debate. Now, you know, people on Twitter calling us Nazis and fascists, which happens all the time. They've got the occupied Democrats feed full of hate filled stuff. I don't want them banned. So I'm not going to call it hate speech, even though it's hate-filled, if you're going to use it as a vehicle to ban someone I disagree with

because I'm not a hypocrite and I actually value free speech. You got to understand, man, this is what makes us categorically different than these idiots. This guy in the media is obviously some socialist activist, whether he knows it or not he does not

want other ideas out there that challenges his hegemonic view of the world so he's going to put whatever gory ugly label he can on it to make it appear ugly and nasty so that you'll support his efforts to get rid of it the problem is he can't even cite a single example. The greatest irony of all is that guys like this are protected via our constitution and the first amendment to put out their own form of hate filled speech, even though I'm not going to call it hate speech. More in a minute, but first relief ban, you got to check out relief ban. It's the number one FDA cleared anti-nausea wristband has been clinically proven to quickly relieve and effectively prevent nausea and vomiting associated with motion sickness, anxiety, migraines, hangovers, morning sickness, chemotherapy. It's what I used it for, worked for me and more. My daughter uses it when she

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Here, listen to Sachs. This is good. What the left has wanted to do ever since Elon took over Twitter is to say that this is all about allowing more hate on the platform and that's never been the motivation I think for those of us who really care about free speech right even if you this is true I think for Glenn what what is our main concern about censorship it is political suppression it's about narrative control it's not like we want more hate on the platform it's just that we want we want a level playing field we don't want uh the you know thought police at Twitter putting their thumb on the scale of American democracy and deciding who has a voice and who doesn't that's what this is really about and um and I think that the people

who believe in censorship want to make you think that this is about allowing more hate. And it's not. It's not. It's a big scam. They are running an enormous gaslighting scam. You've got to remember, what are the components of gaslighting, right? Gaslighting, getting people to believe something that's not real, which is what Democrats, liberals, and socialists are good at. There's a Russian collusion scandal.

How do you get people to believe that? You lie. You lie often. They did that. You lie confidently. They did that too. Intelligence experts say. But you got to isolate people from the truth.

I've said this over and over. Censorship online is the only way to isolate people from the truth. That's why that AI topic yesterday was just so fascinating to me. We got a lot of feedback on that. It did a ton of views. Let me cover it again on my Fox show, nine o'clock on Saturday, trying to get David Sachs right now. You know, it's just stunning to me too. Before I got in here today, I was thinking of this younger generation. I don't know how you all feel about this too in the chat or out there in the listening audience, listening on podcast afterwards. You know, when I was younger, I know you too, Joe, being a musician, you were probably as bohemian as it gets, man.

Oh yeah. But I had a bumper sticker on my car that said question authority. I've told the story before. There was a white bumper sticker. It said it in red, question authority, because I just never wanted to be told what to do. Even now, I'm not saying it's always a good thing. I could be very stubborn. Sometimes it's caused me some headaches, but especially as a kid, I never want to be told what to do. I just can't get, and most of my friends were the same way, by the way. I can't get past this, that this generation of kids, they've lost that independent renegade misfit streak, and all they want to do is be told what to do. That's it. What they want the government to take their money. They want big daddy to pay off their loans. They want a guaranteed

income despite not having to work. They want to be told what to do if they own a business by big daddy government. They want to go to big daddy government for their healthcare. They want to go to big daddy government for their health care. They want to be told, you know, how and when and why and who they should vote for. They want to be told online what they can and can't say. I mean, am I missing something for the parents out there listening to the show? What happened? What happened? Gosh, man, we had the hippies generation followed by my generation into this generation now that just, they just want to be dog walked around.

I don't understand. Listen, we don't push to silence them because they can't even defend their own positions to life. I don't push to silence them on principle alone because infringing on people's free speech is morally and ethically wrong and leads eventually to the tyranny we've been trying to avoid as the anti-anti-communist. Everybody understand? However, from a tactical perspective here, I don't push to silence the left outside of the morals and ethics I just discussed because it's inefficient.

because it's inefficient. The left, in my experience, I've run for office three times, but on television 11 years, have done innumerable debates between Geraldo, my show, the rebuttal segment on Fox, Collins. When I used to be a guest on Hannity's radio, I would debate all the time. I dated that David Mark guy, whatever his name is. I used to debate all the time. I dated that David Mark guy, whatever his name is. I used to debate all the time. Lefties debating us is the best thing that can happen. Silencing them is the worst thing. Because, folks, they can never defend their own positions.

Their positions are ridiculous on the Second Amendment. Oh, we got to get rid of the guns. Well, you've tried that. You've tried that in liberal cities where you have strict gun laws. How's it worked out? They can't defend it. They can't defend it. They can't defend it. The tax issue.

Oh, you believe higher taxes are a net public good. Do you pay more? No, I don't. Well, why not? You said they're a net public good. You'd be doing the public service. Why don't you do it? Oh, you want government-run health care?

But you don't want to give up your private insurance. You don't like school choice, but you want to choose to send your kid to school. None of their arguments are defensible. We invite them on our shows. We invite them on our shows because we don't want to silence them because when they speak out, they look like buffoons. The Dan Bongino Show. If you'd like to hear more, subscribe to The Dan Bongino Show wherever you get your podcasts.